Company & Product Featured

Xmas Gift Ideas: Trade Your CoinJar Points for Gift Cards. Presents Done!

New gift cards have been added to the CoinJar Rewards Store. Use your points to buy Xmas pressies!

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Greed is good

This is how many would characterize Adam Smith's theory about why the invisible hand of the market makes us all better off. Those who break Smith down like that forget he wrote a book about morals for context. Looking at this week's stories, it wouldn'

Company & Product Featured

Based: New Cryptos, New Networks, and Multichain Transfers at CoinJar

ARB (Arbitrum) and OP (Optimism) are now available for purchase on CoinJar. MATIC is now POL, and we have gone multichain!

Crypto News & Analysis Featured

Microsoft Board Says "No Thanks" to Bitcoin. What Will Shareholders Vote?

Will Microsoft shareholders vote to add Bitcoin to the corporation's treasury? Interesting times are coming.

Company & Product Featured

CoinJar is a Finalist for Back-to-Back Blockies Awards!

We're absolutely thrilled to announce that CoinJar has been nominated for the Digital Currency Exchange of the Year Award at the prestigious Blockies!

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Is this accelerationism?

I ask myself, being in crypto these days - where presidential candidates advertise tokens with ludicrous claims, a bot gets rich shilling memes, and blockchains launch phones.  Story One World Liberty Financial not going great  Remember the days when everyone was outraged at Nancy Pelosi's insider trading? Well,

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Crypto Realism

In his essay Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher establishes that we've canceled the future and are just recycling the old instead. And what's old in crypto? Discussing who Satoshi is, viewing memecoins as community coins and incompetent projects with million-dollar backing... Crypto is having its recycling moment

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Back to Basics

In 2006, I, a teenage girl, was really into Christina Aguilera. So much so, I listened to her latest album on repeat, to the detriment of my family's sanity.  Anyway, it was called Back to Basics.  A fitting title for the stories this week, which highlight those who

Company & Product Featured

CoinJar: Multiple Wins in Finder's Customer Satisfaction Awards

In a significant achievement for the cryptocurrency industry, CoinJar has emerged as a standout performer in Finder's 2024 Crypto Trading – Value and Investing Customer Satisfaction Awards.

Company & Product Featured

What the Sigma? Lit New Upgrades to CoinJar Rewards

CoinJar Rewards has had a glow-up, so here's what's new. Instant Gratification: No more waiting! You can now redeem your points for crypto or gift cards instantly. More Crypto Choices: Trade your points for a wider range of crypto, including XRP, WIF, DOGE, Solana, and Pepe,

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Delulu

Even outside of crypto, Gen Z has adopted being delusional as a coping mechanism, delulu denoting someone who, despite evidence to the contrary, holds on to idealistic beliefs.  Well, if that doesn't sound like someone still reading crypto newsletters believing some good has to come out of this

Company & Product Featured

Multichain at CoinJar: Faster and Cheaper USDC Transfers on Solana

Sometimes, it can be inefficient  and costly to do USDC transfers on the Ethereum network. Lucky for you, CoinJar now offers USDC transfers on the Solana network, providing an efficient, more competitive, and user-friendly solution for managing stablecoins. CoinJar is now multichain CoinJar is now "multichain". This means

Community Featured

Spot the Crypto Scam: Top 4 Survey Fails

Here, we reveal the top four questions on the quiz that tripped up even the most scam-savvy of participants.

Community Featured

What's a Loyalty Points Scam? What's an Impersonation Scam?

Scams are everywhere, and there are many different types. As scams are always changing quickly, the tactics and strategies used by scammers change quickly too. Here, we look at a loyalty points scam and an impersonation scam. The more you can identify red flags and discrepancies in a situation, the

Opinion Featured

Onchain: All PR is not good

Another whistleblower wrote a book about how corrupted crypto is, and Pavel Durov, the CEO of everyone's darling messaging app Telegram, got arrested in France—where he went to donate sperm hang out with a female influencer.  But that's not even all...  Story One McDonald Experiment

Community Featured

Think You Can Spot a Scam? Take the Quiz and Win an iPad!

The theme for Scams Awareness Week is to share your story and to mark the occasion we’re giving Australian customers the chance to win a 10th Generation iPad (Silver, WiFi, 64GB) valued at $599 AUD. Simply complete the below quiz to go in the running: https://forms.coinjar.com/

Community Featured

Be Scam Aware: Do Your Own Research

A solid piece of advice is that you should always be doing your own research (DYOR) before becoming involved with any financial opportunity. But what does doing your own research actually look like? Today we’ll take a deep dive into what it looks like to Do Your Own Research

Community Featured

New Crypto Scams to be Aware of in 2025

Crypto scams happen every day as scammers get more sophisticated in their methods. A common scam that is rising in prominence is the "recovery scam" whereby the scammer poses as someone who will assist you to get your stolen funds back. CoinJar is participating in Scams Awareness Week,

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Power and Progress

Also the title of a great book I took the liberty to borrow. It tries to answer the question of why tech often benefits the elites and what can be done about that. More people in crypto and AI should read it and ask themselves, are we navigating ourselves into

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Penguins, Politics, and Pickups

Warning: this may contain traces of sarcasm and cynicism. Story One Penguins There's a clear hierarchy in NFTs. The squiggles are for edgy art appreciators, while Bored Ape holders are the same crop of people who will buy a Ferrari and a Rolex believing that'll increase

Company & Product Featured

New CoinJar Bundles, New Asset Allocations, Rebalancing & Lower Recurring Buy Fees!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest CoinJar Bundles, designed to help you diversify your crypto portfolio more effectively. Additionally, we are pleased to inform you of a reduced recurring buy fee. New CoinJar Bundles We have introduced four new bundles, each curated to meet diverse investment

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Blinking Red

Red has always been used as a warning sign, as we're wired to pay attention to it. The colour is also a theme for what's happened in crypto in the past few days. Story One Red Candles  In January of this year, the German criminal police

Opinion Featured

Onchain: Another Moon Landing, Unethical Auditors, and Blinks

Dive into our latest newsletter covering groundbreaking space ventures, blockchain security scandals, and Solana's innovative tech strides. Plus, discover a fascinating moon-related fact inspired by Japanese folklore!

Guides & How-Tos Featured

Tax time and Some Deals for Crypto Tax Software

Another financial year has ended, and 'tax time' is upon us. Fortunately, CoinJar simplifies collecting the necessary information about your crypto investments for your tax return. How to access Tax Statements and export your transactions CoinJar mobile app: More > General > Reports & Statements CoinJar.com: Settings

Opinion Featured

Onchain: ZK Airdrop, Tap-to-Earn, and Crypto's first Emmy?

Story One ZK Airdrop  Is this the start of ZK summer or just a Midsummer Night's Dream where we're all manipulated by the magic airdrop fairy? It remains to be seen, but with ZK Sync, the first real zkEVM protocol (their words), it is distributing its